Do Now: Music! FOOD! Socializing! Answer the following question in your notebook: Which state is the hearth of bluegrass music? Describe at least one folk food tradition. 3. What is the difference between greeting in the West and greeting in the East?

Highlights from Readings Take notes on these highlights, pull outs and extra important details from the readings you have done on CULTURE thus far.

Defining Folk and popular Culture Folk Culture: Traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation Popular Culture: Found in large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite personal differences

Folk Culture – rapidly changing and/or disappearing throughout much of the world. Portuguese Fishing Boat Guatemalan Market Turkish Camel Market

Folk Culture Stable and close knit Usually a rural community Tradition controls Resistance to change Buildings erected without architect or blueprint using locally available building materials Anonymous origins, diffuses slowly through migration. Clustered distributions: isolation/lack of interaction breed uniqueness and ties to physical environment.

Popular Culture Differences from place to place uncommon, more likely differences at one place over time

Popular Culture Housing: only small regional variations; trends over time Food: franchises, cargo planes, superhighways and freezer trucks have eliminated much local variation Limited variations in choice regionally, esp. with alcohol and snacks Substantial variations by ethnicity Clothing: Jeans and have become valuable status symbols in many regions including Asia and Russia despite longstanding folk traditions.

diffusion The process of how culture spreads from one place to another FOLK CULTURE diffuses through migration POPULAR CULTURE diffuses through technology and cultural imperialism

Diffusion of Popular Culture Effects on Landscape: breeds homogenous, “placeless” (Relph, 1976), landscape Complex network of roads and highways Commercial structures tend towards ‘boxes’ Dwellings may be suggestive of older folk traditions Planned and Gated Communities more and more common Disconnect with landscape: indoor swimming pools, green lawns in the desert

Diffusion of Popular Culture Often Destroys Folk Culture – or preserves traditions as museum pieces or tourist gimmicks Accelerated Resource Use through Accelerated Consumption: Overconsumption of meat Mineral extraction for technologies (i.e. cell phones) Golf courses use water and destroy landscapes worldwide

“Little Boxes” Document based question Listen to the folk song, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds Then answer the following questions with your tablemates: Which cultural process is the song “Little Boxes” commenting on? Describe the author’s viewpoint on popular culture (including housing, education, leisure, etc.) Refer to examples from the lyrics.